I encourage parents to ask a lot of questions of those schools on the list. I have found that many of the schools actually do not meet the qualifications set forth by the Georgia Department of Education. They were required to submit and affadavit saying that they met the requirements. No investigation was made. There are homeschool groups listed, there are schools that do not provide a full day curriculum, only tutoring services in certain subjects, and there are schools, believe it or not who do not offer special education services! Don't belive me?? Check it out. It has been a real eye-opening experience. I belive there were good intentions behind this bill, but once it is handed over to the Department of Education, it loses some of it's "oomph". The same thing happened with "Joshua's Law". It was a great idea, require all new drivers to take driver's ed before they are allowed to recieve the license. The problem is when they handed it over to the Department of Driver Services, there was not enough money budgeted to provide these classes. They cost a good deal of money and they are not provided in every high school. You have to go outside the school to get them and they are very time consuming classes that are not offered at convenient times. It gets dark early, how many Saturdays can you do? It's been a nightmare. They meant well with the special needs scholarship, but in retrospect, it needs more work. Enacting it this time of year is not good for schools or students. There are not many administrators or teachers available at this time to meet with prospective parents. No plans were made for this as we were unsure when it would be passed into law. No one knows the rules, and many services will be lost for these kids. What about Federal Funds?? Does Child Find still apply? Do they scholarship students lose that opportunity? There are many, many unanswered questions. I have to admit that Jeff Gagne at the DOE has done his best to answer the questions, but he didn't ask for this and was thrown into this position of simply "making it work". There are going to be many disappointed parents out there. It is frustrating enough to deal with a special needs child and to have hope for this bill only to have it squashed by schools who did not take the time to learn what they needed to learn before applying and affirming that they met these needs, when in fact they did not. It is a misdemeanor, from what I can tell.